Wild Risks
Why Environmental Crime Matters to Finance
15 July 2025
It could pay for 1.4 million affordable homes. Or you could give primary education to every child on earth for several years.Olivia DakeynePrincipal, Research at Themis
Tom joined Jersey Finance as the Sustainable Finance Lead in April 2023.
Born and educated in Jersey, Tom studied at the University of Chester where he graduated with a BA Hons and MSc.
Tom has over 17 years’ experience in Jersey’s finance industry, having worked as an Associate Director at Zedra before joining Jersey Finance and, prior to that, at EFG. In his role at Zedra, he drove the creation of, and was Chairperson of, their Global Green Team.
Born and educated in Jersey, Tom studied at the University of Chester where he graduated with a BA Hons and MSc.
Tom has over 17 years’ experience in Jersey’s finance industry, having worked as an Associate Director at Zedra before joining Jersey Finance and, prior to that, at EFG. In his role at Zedra, he drove the creation of, and was Chairperson of, their Global Green Team.
Olivia DakeynePrincipal, Research at Themis
Olivia DakeynePrincipal, Research at Themis
Olivia is the Research Principal at Themis, an anti-financial crime provider, where she leads financial and environmental crime research projects for the private and public sector, including for a number of governments across the world. She specialises in projects involving environmental crime and human trafficking, especially through the lens of serious organised transnational crime and convergence with other financial crimes. She has 13 years’ varied experience across the public and private sectors in a full-time and freelance capacity, including in research, finance, sustainability, policy and strategy for organisations like the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens and Client Earth.
